Quality Hardware Help

Just learned this from another poster here -- they cut down the I-cut stocks, it's correct and normal. Mine is the same. 

It is not "correct", there are no original I cut low wood stocks. If you have an I cut stock that has been cut down to low wood the carbine most likely went through a rebuild or at least the stock did. 

I found these numbers on another post. This puts my receiver somewhere around Jun 43. Would a 2-44 barrel match up, or would it have been re-barreled? is there another source? Hard to believe they pushed out 100K M1 in a single month. Downright amazing. 

A 2-44 would be in the 4.80 ish range. Inland, anyway. Not Underwood.

Thanks for everyone's input. I bought this one from Cabelas in NE after finding it on Guns International.

Thanks 03manV -- my understanding was that they were cut down during rebuild. My Winchester has a flip sight and type 2 barrel band with the same modified I-cut stock. Guess it depends whether this one was advertised as original.

I also found this Standard Product Carbine at the Cabelas Gun Library in VA. It has the same stock issues.

Guys! Don't assume the cut down high wood necessarily went through a rebuild. Sometimes the thin wood could start to split and I would be cut down by the unit armorer to prevent further damage. Inspect the work carefully. You may find indications that it was NOT done at a rebuild facility like an uneven cut down or remnants of a split. While it wasn't common, it did happen, so don't be too hasty in calling it a rebuild.

Whether it's a normal rebuild or a salvage job, the value of what it was is equivalent to a rebuild. If there's no cartouche and the barrel is nowhere near correct, it's really wouldn't make any difference how it because low wood.